1 Baoji builds an ecological garden city
At the end of the "10th Five-Year Plan", Baoji, a national environmental protection model city, has a high starting point to connect with the "11th Five-Year Plan", and the construction of a modern ecological garden city has achieved five goals. Happiness: In the assessment and evaluation organized by the National Bureau of Statistics, Baoji once again entered the top 100 cities in terms of comprehensive strength in the country, ranking 78th compared to the 81st in the top 100 in 2004; it won the title of China's Brand Economic City, and is one of the top 100 cities in my country. The only city in the western region to win this honor; following the success of "creating health" and "creating models", the work of creating a national civilized city has achieved phased results and was named an advanced city by the National Civilization Commission; the creation of a national garden city has successfully passed the national acceptance , the announcement has ended; the economy and society are developing rapidly and well. The added value of industry has more than doubled in five years, and the energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of added value has been reduced by nearly 40%. It is estimated that in 2005, the city's GDP will reach 37.8 billion yuan. , an increase of 13%, and the growth rate continues to lead the six cities and districts in Guanzhong.
Vibrant Baoji: Water is the best in the city
It is said that Baoji has no shortage of water. The Weihe River runs through the city. There are 13 rivers in the urban area, and it is known as the "Guanzhong City". Faucet". However, Baoji is short of water. The 13 tributaries in the territory have long since stopped flowing. Due to the decrease in rainfall, the Wei River has long been crossed by boats and has become overgrown with weeds.
To this end, Baoji has made every effort to build a modern ecological garden city with its ambition and mastery of craftsmanship to allow water to trickle into the city. In 2004, after more than a year of hard work, the people of Baoji completed the construction of the Weihe River barrage with a total investment of more than 80 million yuan. From this day on, an artificial lake covering an area of ??1.4 million square meters was embedded in the urban area of ??Baoji. Baoji called it Jinwei Lake by collecting names from citizens.
The Qingjiang River and Jinling River rubber dam projects are new key projects for flood control and ecological management in Baoji City after the Weihe River Barrage Project. After the Qingjiang River Rubber Dam Project is completed and filled with water, a landscape water surface of 122 meters wide, 700 meters long, and 83,000 square meters will be formed at the entrance of the Wei River. After the Jinling River Rubber Dam Project is completed and impounded, a landscaped water surface of 170 meters wide, 785 meters long, and approximately 140,000 square meters will be formed in the urban area of ??Baoji. It has become another opportunity for Baoji City to promote new ideas for river management and city management. A model.
Green Baoji: A city with beautiful scenery in the forest
In accordance with the strategic plan of "Baoji should take the lead in building a big city" proposed by the provincial party committee and the provincial government, Baoji aims to create the best city in western China With the goal of human settlement environment and the best investment environment, the construction of a modern ecological garden city is placed in an important position as the "first priority", making Baoji initially show "two forest belts, three water surfaces, the city in the forest, and the water in the city" , close to mountains and rivers" modern ecological garden urban landscape.
The Baoji Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government focus on the strategic layout of coordinated development of the economy, society and environment. At the end of April 2002, after the Weihe River Open Park with a total length of 3 kilometers and an area of ??610,000 square meters was completed, after efforts in recent years, the Shangmaying Open Green Space Park in the urban area was built, bringing the total area of ??the open ecological green space park to 1.17 million square meters.
Baoji is realizing magical dreams in the green. As part of the Urban Green Project, Baoji has built six new green space squares, adding 500,000 square meters of green space. The courtyard greening project has built 6 provincial-level garden-style residential communities, 27 municipal-level garden-style residential communities, and more than 200 county-level garden-style units. The "three-sided" greening project focuses on both sides of rivers, highways, and railways, and has built a 60-kilometer forest belt of weeping willows, white poplars, cedar, and privet. The street landscaping project has built 149 road green spaces with a total length of 148.5 kilometers. 10 urban traffic arteries were demolished and greened, forming a multi-layered green landscape across the city. For the water storage wetland project, 60,000 clumps of reeds were planted in the upper reaches of the urban section of the Weihe River, and hundreds of thousands of square meters of ecological wetland were built. In the wall demolition and greening project, 120,000 square meters of temporary construction on the city's main roads were demolished, and 52 pieces of green space were built in the middle of the street.
In accordance with the concept of ecological construction, Baoji City, while paying close attention to urban ecological management, has expanded the green area to include the urban area in the west, the Baili Weibei Ancient Plateau in Fufeng in the east, and the entire Qinling Mountains on the south bank of the Wei River. In the northern foothills, the main battlefield is set for afforestation and returning farmland to forest. Currently, 5,700 acres of trees and more than 6 million trees have been planted in the Weibei Ancient Plateau. In July 2003, in accordance with the arrangements of the provincial government, Baoji City began a special environmental protection project at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains.
Ecological Baoji: Compose a new song for harmonious development
Wu Dengchang, Secretary of the Baoji Municipal Party Committee, said that to implement the scientific concept of development, we must take the concept of ecological environment construction as the starting point and continuously improve the urban carrier function and ecological taste.
Baoji City Mayor Yao Yinliang further said frankly that in order to fully promote the construction of modern ecological garden cities, it is necessary to build the transportation framework of big cities.
Based on this, Baoji City has focused on building the "five horizontal and ten vertical" urban transportation network skeleton. In recent years, it has tried every means to raise more than 1 billion yuan in funds to build and rebuild high-tech 28 urban roads including Avenue, Jintai Avenue, Jiangtan Road, Dongfeng Road, Qingjiang Road, Park Road, etc., 1 new Weihe River Tunnel, 9 new century bridges, Wolong Temple Bridge, Nanguan Overpass, Xiguan Overpass, etc. will be built or renovated. This bridge has transformed 58 back streets and alleys, including Renmin Street, Jiaotong Lane, Xinmin Road, and Xinhua Lane. Last year, it was proposed to use three years to implement the small road smoothing project and reconstruct 75 small roads, and 28 were completed within the year. A number of key road and bridge projects are under construction, including Xinfu Road, Titanic City Road, Chencang Avenue, Weibin Avenue, Phase II of Gaoxin Avenue, Futan Bridge, Daima Bridge, and Guozhen Second Bridge.
"The environment is also a productive force." Based on this understanding, Baoji City raised 140 million yuan to build a Shilipu sewage treatment plant with a daily treatment capacity of 90,000 tons of sewage, bringing the urban sewage treatment rate to 75.41%; it invested 97 million yuan to build an area of ??600 acres and a daily treatment plant. The Lingyuan garbage treatment plant with a capacity of 700 tons of garbage has been equipped with hazardous waste and medical waste incinerators. The city's harmless treatment rate of garbage has reached 83.7%. It has also completed 35 smoke and dust control projects such as Baoji Power Plant and Baoji Cigarette Factory, all of which Achieve emission standards. The city's vehicle exhaust, road transport dust, and construction site dust have been fully controlled. Five smoke control areas were built, bringing the smoke control coverage rate to 95.7%.
In the process of building a big city with ecological gardens, Baoji City has "reinvested" and at the same time paid more attention to "closing". It has successively implemented hard measures to shut down the "five small" enterprises with high pollution, high energy consumption and low efficiency. There are 114 households, and 14 households have been refused permission to settle high-energy-consuming projects invested by Noble. The high investment in the environment and the gradual banning of the new "five small" enterprises have greatly improved the quality and taste of the urban ecological environment, improved the living environment and investment environment, thus attracting Fortune 500 companies such as Japan's Sumitomo, France's Veliya, and Germany's Siemens. Enterprises rushed to land in Baoji, and then attracted a large number of well-known domestic companies such as Shenyang Jinde, Tsingtao Beer, Guangdong TCL, Jidong Cement, Hunan Xiang Torch, Mengniu Dairy, etc. to prospect for gold in Baoji, achieving rapid and good economic development.